I'm Cari. I live in Melbourne with my very lovable husband, Steve and my very adorable dog, Jesse. I blog about just about everything from life as a Canadian living down under to things that inspire and make me happy. I use my blog to share my adventures but also as an online journal of my life. Thanks for reading!

Sunday, August 31, 2008

River Fire, Nudgee Beach and Spring Veges!

This past weekend was River Fire 2008. You may remember that I wrote about river fire last year. It's basically a big fireworks show, with fireworks going off everywhere downtown...the bridge, tops of buildings, barges on the river...everywhere. It's a pretty impressive show that starts and end with a fighter jet flying through really low and dumping it's fuel and burning it. Pretty cool! The jets flew over our house on Friday during a trial run and I thought a plane was crashing into our yard. I honestly think Jesse almost dropped dead. It was so loud and the house literally shook. Scared the crap out of me and Jesse!

Mariana and Nick were kind enough to head to the Botanical Gardens early to get us a spot. They picked a good place, with a view of the bridge and water. Here we all are chilling out with snacks and drinks, waiting for the show to start...

Rej and Clo.

Breagha...getting so big!

Shamus took this one of Steve...

...and this one of me and him...not bad.

Before the fireworks started, there were planes flying around doing tricks...neat to see and a great way to entertain people while they waited!

Of course, the fireworks...

...very pretty...

Then this morning, we headed to a dog beach that we had heard about awhile ago in an area called Nudgee. It was pretty impressive...very big off-lead area, right on the water. I can't believe we haven't gone there before...Jes loved it but as always, he was more interested in his ball than the million dogs there to play with.

I'm loving the warmer weather that we've been having lately! I really feel the difference this year and notice the change now that spring has arrived. It's so nice to not be freezing in our house first thing in the morning! The last 2 days are the first days in quite a long time that I had all the windows open...yippee! Oh, and Steve's growing us some veges...the lettuce is doing especially well and tastes great on sandwiches. Still waiting on the green pepper and tomato...